Improved starch or gloss for use in laundries



" gtinitri PETER W. WEIDA, 0F PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA.

Letter 's Patent'No. 87,607, dated Ma/rch 9, 1869. Q i

IMIPROVED STARGH OR GLOSS FOR USE IN LAUNDRIES.

' v The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may, concern v Be it known that I, PETER W. WEIDA, of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Recipe for the Manufacture of St-arch; and I do, hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of my position.

' I take, of spermaceti, eight pounds; gum-arable, three pounds; white wax, five pounds; ordinary wheat starch, two pounds; tallow, treated with alum, and pulverized, two pounds equal to twenty pounds.

The above ingredients are to be usedin their dry, pulverized state, and thoroughly mixed up together.

. To use my preparation, take, of it, one table-spoonful to one pint of ordinary starch, viz, the ordinary starchpreparation, of two ounces of starch to one water. A

I do not limit myself to the above figures, but reserve the right to mix up the same ingredients in larger or smaller proportions, as I may hereafter see fit; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secu're by Letters Patent of the United States, is

A composition composed of the above-named ingredients,v for the purpose of giving gloss and smoothness to ordinary starch, .as aforesaid and described.

PETER W. WEIDA. [L. s.]

Witnesses: Y

SAMUEL L. TAYLOR, WILLIAM W." ROBERTS.

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